US4560363A - Eye-moving mechanism for a figure toy - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates to animated figure toys and, more particularly, to a new and useful animated figure toy having an improved eye-moving mechanism.
- U.S. Pat. No. 1,008,471 discloses a figure toy having eyes which are capable both of the ordinary opening and closing movement and of moving laterally.
- U.S. Pat. No. 2,706,364 discloses an eye-set for dolls which has a sleeping and rolling effect.
- U.S. Pat. No. 3,421,255 discloses doll eyes that roll or swivel from left to right when the doll head is swung or rotated on a generally vertical axis, wherein motion is induced by weighting of pivotal eyeballs. A pair of rotative eyeballs are linked for effecting synchronized motion.
- U.S. Pat. No. 3,550,315 discloses a doll eye assembly in which an eye member is pivotally mounted in a housing in a manner, and the weight of which is distributed with reference to its pivotal mounting, such that the eye member moves sideways and from side to side in the eye assembly when a doll head containing the eye member is tilted in upright position or is rotated when in supine position.
- U.S. Pat. No. 3,636,653 discloses a doll with eyes which may be actuated by gravity, and also rods moved by a lever.
- the lever is moved by means operated by a cam extending from a shaft driven by a motorized music box mounted within the doll. The cam causes the eyes to blink.
- U.S. Pat. Nos. 4,033,071 and 4,074,460 each disclose a doll having an operating mechanism actuated by a simulated bottle inserted in the doll's mouth to cause the doll to open and close its eyes and to simulate the action of sucking on the bottle.
- the bottle tip When placed in the doll's mouth, the bottle tip becomes mechanically connected to the operating mechanism so that rotation of the bottle will operate the mechanism.
- U.S. Pat. No. 304,063 discloses a figure toy including apparatus for retaining the eyes alternatively in an open position or an eye closed position.
- U.S. Pat. No. 3,699,707 discloses a doll with blinking eyelids moved by a pendulum.
- the doll has eyes that not only move from side to side, but which also blink rapidly, but occasionally, and close when the doll is laid horizontally.
- the doll includes an eyelid lever which can pivot up and down to cover and uncover the eyes, and a pendulum which swings laterally.
- the pendulum carries a resilient wire that can brush against a projection on the eyelid lever to quickly pivot it to cover the eyes, and then quickly release from it to allow the eyes to be uncovered.
- the eyelid lever is weighted so that the eyelids thereon cover the eyes when the doll is laid horizontally and face up.
- a new and useful animated figure toy is provided with an improved eye-moving mechanism.
- This mechanism is employed in a figure toy having a pair of eyes, a pendulum pivotally mounted on the figure toy adjacent the eyes, a mechanism mounted on the figure toy including eyelids mounted for up and down movement about a horizontal axis for covering and uncovering the eyes and a device for coupling the pendulum to the mounted mechanism to blink the eyelids.
- the coupling device comprises an apparatus for blinking the eyelids cyclically when the figure toy is swung to one side of a vertical center line.
- the blinking apparatus may include a cam and a follower coupled to the cam.
- the cam is configured to drive the follower cyclically.
- the cam may comprise an M-shaped slot provided on the pendulum.
- the cam follower may comprise a finger having a first end carried by the mounted mechanism and a second end riding in the M-shaped slot.
- FIG. 1 is a front elevational view of an animated figure toy constituting a presently-preferred embodiment of the invention
- FIG. 2 is an enlarged, partial cross-sectional view taken along line 2--2 of FIG. 1;
- FIG. 3 is a rear elevational view of the mechanism of FIG. 2;
- FIG. 4 is an enlarged, cross-sectional view taken along line 4--4 of FIG. 3.
- a figure toy constituting a presently-preferred embodiment of the invention includes a body 12 and a head 14.
- head 14 includes a feature-defining member 16 which may be made from a suitable soft material such as cloth or plastisol and which is affixed to an internal support member 18.
- figure toy 10 also includes a pair of eye openings 20, 22, each of which extend through both the feature-defining member 16 and the internal support member 18, as shown in FIG. 2 for the opening 20.
- figure toy 10 also includes an improved eye-moving mechanism 24 which is mounted to internal support member 18.
- This eye-moving mechanism 24 includes a pie-shaped pendulum 26 having an apex portion 28, a base portion 30 and an intermediate portion 32.
- Pendulum 26 is provided with an M-shaped cam 34, a protuberance 36, a counterweight 38 and an aperture 40.
- Aperture 40 is provided in apex portion 28 for swingably mounting pendulum 26 on a pivot pin 42 which is provided in the upper portion of internal support member 18 midway between eye openings 20, 22.
- Pendulum 26 is configured and dimensioned in a manner such that an upper area 44 (lying between intermediate portion 32 and apex 28) lies in a first vertical plane directly beneath apex 28 and a lower area 46 (lying between intermediate portion 32 and base 30) is offset toward eye openings 20, 22 and lies in a plane substantially parallel to the plane of the upper area 44. With this arrangement, the M-shaped cam 34 will lie directly behind eye openings 20, 22.
- Eye-moving mechanism 24 also includes an elongated cam follower 48 having a first end 50 affixed to an eyelid link 54 and a second end 52 extending into operative engagement with cam 34.
- Eyelid link 54 is rotatably mounted in journal bearings 55 and includes ends 56, 58 to which eyelids 60, 62, respectively, are affixed.
- each eyelid carries an outwardly-extending trunnion 64 rotatably mounted in a journal bearing 66 and, as is shown in FIG. 2 for eyelid 60, each is provided with an eyelash 67.
- Figure toy 10 also includes a pair of eyeballs 68, 70, each of which is affixed to a spindle 72 rotatably mounted to internal support member 18, as shown in FIG. 2.
- Each spindle 72 carries a crank arm 74 to which a link 76 is connected by a pin 78 for synchronous movement of eyeballs 68, 70 from side to side.
- Link 76 may be moved back and forth by protuberance 36 on pendulum 26 which is adapted to cyclically engage a pair of upstanding posts, like the one shown at 86 in FIG. 3, which are affixed to link 76 in the path of travel of protuberance 36.
- Each spindle 72 may be maintained at the proper elevation in support member 18 by a pair of disks 88, 90 affixed to spindle 72.
- Internal support member 18 may be molded from a suitable polymeric material and comprises a front half 80 and rear half 82 which may be suitably joined together along a parting line 84.
- eye-moving mechanism 24 Operation of eye-moving mechanism 24 is believed to be apparent from the foregoing and will be briefly summarized at this point.
- weight 38 will carry pendulum 26 to the left in a manner such that cam 34 will cause cam follower 48 to move up and down.
- cam follower 48 As cam follower 48 moves up, it will close eyelids 60, 62 which will then open when cam follower 48 travels down.
- protuberance 36 will engage upstanding post 86 and rotate spindle 72, thereby causing eyeballs 68, 70 to move to one side of eye openings 20, 22, respectively.
- cam 34 When figure toy 10 is then tilted to the other side of center line A--A, cam 34 will again cause eyelids 60, 62 to blink and protuberance 36 will engage the other upstanding post 86 to rotate eyeballs 68, 70 in the opposite direction.
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US9895621B1 (en) * | 2015-01-11 | 2018-02-20 | Keith Aaron Bradley | Multi-directional reactive pendulum object |
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